1 Nov
2001
1 Nov
'01
9:26 a.m.
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 UberTechnoid(a)home.com wrote:
I never really liked Eisa much because of the little
problem caused when
the user no longer has his setup disk... Having it in Rom is pretty nice
and solves that problem completely.
I've never seen a PC with a setup program in ROM that can do
device-specific resource allocation.
As for not being able to assign interrupts for PNP, it
isn't really true.
Depends on your Bios make and rev. Some you deny all IRQ's but the ones
you want the system to assign, some you set the irqs you want the systems
to assign, some you can't customize at all. My PNP bios is set to exclude
irq 11 from it's PNP table of available resources thereby allowing my
Adaptec scsi isa controller to sieze that interrupt as it is shunted to
take 11.
Have you ever tried to do resource allocation on a microchannel box? Far,
far superior to "shrug & pay".
Peace... Sridhar